Africa
Ecole Alternative "Saint Joseph", Cotonou (Benin)
french
A cura di Tiziana Borsani
Ecole Alternative Saint Joseph and the Espaces Eveil was born from the educational passion of accompanying children and young people to "be good believers and honest citizens". The initiatives are designed with a view to preventing the risks of exploitation and juvenile delinquency; to enable children and young people to enjoy their rights and, in particular, the right to education. In the centers, the preventive system is lived on a daily basis through attentive listening and discussion on the life project of children and young people, the educational presence, the sharing of the values preached by the Gospel during the "word of the day": an integral education.
Preparing the most vulnerable young women for a better future, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
english
A cura di Nieves Crespo
Mary Help College Professional Formation. The precious experience of working with Global Solidarity Fund, the Missionaries of Charity and Jesuit Refugees Service to change the lives of the most vulnerable young people, especially young women. A very good example for the intercongregational networking, giving answer to the market needs, offering technical skills, making the young women competent and inserting them in the work world.
Un progetto agricolo tutto al femminile: empowerment di donne in situazione di conflitto (Sud Sudan)
italian
A cura di Lourdes Hermoso
Women in the context of South Sudan are very vulnerable, many local cultures do not favor their education and organize for them marriage even when they are young. Since 2013, the center has increased its activities and projects since the emigration caused by the internal war has brought many women from different ethnic groups to the surroundings of the mission. The project areno at the beginning of literacy, art and local craft courses. After that, cutting and sewing, agriculture and catering programs were added. The center has transformed the reality of many women. many of them arrived without training, without economic possibilities and above all with a high self-esteem caused by the cultural reality and violence in the country.
Apprentissage par des mises en situation professionnelle, Pointe Noire (Congo Brazzaville)
french
A cura di Florance Minkoue
The Madre Morano Vocational Training Center was created in 2006 to meet the training needs of girls who do not have access to education. Considering the increase in unemployment and precarious rates in the city of Pointe Noire and especially in our Mpaka 120 district, the monitoring and evaluation team of the "Madre Morano" Vocational Training Center opted for a total change of methodology: training gaining experience throughout the training course, thanks to the scheduling of regular meetings with professionals. The positive results of this choice, in recent years, have made it possible to establish a partnership with the Ministry of Skills Training, the World Bank and the Rotary Club of Pointe Noire for short and long-term training for immediate integration into the market. work. The main goal pursued by our educational community is to accompany the young people of the CFP to be "good Christians (believers) and honest citizens”.
America
Un sueño echo familía, Rio Negro (Argentina)
spanish
Edited by Ariana Elisabeth Porro
Best practice is an initiative of the past pupils of the Rio Negro FMA. The Río Negro Sagrada Familia Secondary School is a secondary school which gives continuity to the Salesian education given at primary level in another college in the city. There was the dream of being able to open a secondary school, there were a group of enthusiastic and passionate women of education, who were able to carry it out with patience and stubbornness to give young people, especially the poorest, a space in which to learn knowledge and life.
Educomunicação na ação social, Conferenza Interispettoriale Brasile
portuguese
Edited by Silvia Silva
This project aims to make the Salesian charismatic identity visible in the Brazilian Salesian Network, especially as regards social action. In fact, we are convinced that education can be effective in developing social actions for the transformation of the territory and of the socio-educational and communicative contexts.
Green Bess Brasil em açao: semeadores do futuro, Lins/São Paulo (Brasile)
portuguese
Edited by Ivone Yared
The Project started in February 2019. It is part of the Interdisciplinary Projects, which have been taking place since 1989 at the FEINTER (Interdisciplinary Fair) of the “Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora” Educational Center, in the city of Lins, in the state of Sao Paulo (Brazil).
This project does not end. It will always be developed by the students, with other different actions and approaches. The central objective is always to satisfy local needs, thus guaranteeing the promotion, protection and respect for Human Rights and the Environment.
Os Guardiões da Criação, Recanto da Cruz Grande, Itapevi/São Paulo (Brasile)
portuguese
Edited by Celene Couto
The Social Work Recanto da Cruz Grande is located in the city of Itapevi, in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. It operates on three missionary fronts: Formal Education (280 students aged 6 to 10); Social Project Growing in Citizenship (160 students aged 8 to 17); and Casa Lar Madre Mazzarello, a reception center in the city for a total of 50 children from 0 to 17 years old. All the projects and actions developed reflect the fundamental option of the Preventive System, which is the preference for the poorest, weakest and most vulnerable young people. Hitting cans or planting vegetables / fruit are, among other actions, the concrete and inculturated way of living the today of history and the educational dream of Don Bosco and Mother Mazzarello among the people of Cruz Grande. Education is a thing of the heart and therefore it is a practice of freedom that allows hearts to be transformed so that the younger generations are committed to history and truly assume their mission as Guardians of creation. Only then can we be happy here and in eternity.
El Sistema Preventivo: un ecosistema para aprender y enseñar la vida en felicidad, Santa Marta (Colombia)
spanish
Edited by Lucía Duque Aristizábal
The project "I generate eco-awareness, your hands are my voice and together we generate change" is a vital experience of happiness because it mobilizes great transformations in the person, in relationships and in the educational environment of the community of the María Auxiliadora Scuola Normale Superiore. The experience stems from the interest, reflection and the need to break down communication barriers with deaf girls and address the problems of the educational context related to the indiscriminate consumption of food that generates garbage, damages the body and the earth, polluting and destroying the ecosystem.
Escuela de Catequistas Parroquiales "Juan Pablo II", Fortul/Arauca (Colombia)
spanish
Edited by Luisa Margarita Zuluaga
The mission is located in the Colombian Amazon, on the border with Venezuela, where the Colombian armed conflict and drug trafficking have strongly felt their devastating effects: violence, exploitation and poverty that reaches misery. True mission territory. The John Paul II Parish School of Catechists is aimed at the catechists of the Diocese of Arauca and the animators, people over the age of 14, simple people, farmers, without much academic preparation, dedicated to breeding and agriculture; there are also professional catechists, teachers, priests, seminarians and nuns, all integrated and engaged in the process of renewal and construction of the diocesan community in which they participate in a climate of missionary synodality.
Centro Catequistico de la “Obra del Niño Jesús”, Bogotá (Colombia)
spanish
Edited by Nancy Venegas Aponte
The "Catechetical Center" originated from the devotion to the "Niño Jesús del Barrio 20 de Julio" in Bogotá, conceived and propagated by Juan del Rizzo SDB, on the outskirts of the city. It was born humbly among the needy of the place, but was soon recognized as a Sanctuary, with a parish attached. The recipients of the Catechetical Center are various and heterogeneous, according to the programs it offers: 500 girls and boys (9-13 years) per year; 150 young people between 14 and 20 years a year; 800 women (25-35 years) per year. Adults are mainly breadwinners; parents of children and young people. Also included are catechists in preparation and in practice, as they are trained through the School for Catechists and refresher sessions respectively.
Escuela de Orientación Social. Forjando el porvenir con dignidad y esperanza, San José (Costa Rica)
spanish
Edited by Aracely Mayorga Rivas
The School of Social Orientation, a work that Sister María Romero started in 1968, continues to do so much good to many young women who seek to access a global education that restores hope, resilience and their dignity as a person. The work's institutional pastoral project is a socio-educational program adapted to educational needs and trends, as an opportunity to help young women and women face the future and generate hope for their personal and social growth and for the development of the country.
Educamos y evangelizamos a través de la radio en el corazón de la Selva Amazónica, Yaupi (Ecuador)
spanish
Edited by Consuelo Chiriboga Hebly
With the Covid-19 pandemic, all our educational activities aimed at reaching communities in the Amazon jungle in the area of Yaupi, Morona and Méndez have stopped. How to follow the students? Our only answer was not to abandon them, not to leave them alone in the jungle. This is the idea behind the distance learning with Radio, in the Shuar language with the help of Spanish, within the Bilingual Intercultural Education Curriculum (MOSEIB). Our target audience are young men and women of the Shuar ethnic group, aged 12 to 19, people with very few opportunities to study and participate in other educational institutions, looking for higher education possibilities.
Casa Misión “Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe”, Petén (Guatemala)
spanish
Edited by Patricia Aguilar
The Daughters of Mary Help of Christians are missionaries in the Parish of San Luis Petén, a large parish made up of 186 communities, of which 157 are Catholics in the middle of a beautiful nature reserve, with a multicultural and multilingual population made up of indigenous Maya peoples: Q`eqchi`, Mopán and Quiche, along with a small mestizo community. We work in the formation of pastoral agents, in the pastoral care of families, in the pastoral care of migrants. The accompaniment of some communities is also supported by the Apostolic Vicariate of Petén, by the Catechesis Commission (Coordination), by the Youth Ministry Commission and by the Mission Commission, which animates the small missionary communities (basic ecclesial communities).
Aprendiendo a caminar contigo. Sistema preventivo y migración, Monterrey (Messico)
spanish
Edited by Ana Cristina Chavira Sáenz
Given the great variety of types of migrants, we have decided to work with families who have sought refuge in Mexico and are trying to integrate into Monterrey society. Our attention is focused on offering educational opportunities especially for children, adolescents and young people (aged 4 to 17) that we try to regularly include in the National Education System. We also take care of helping them to achieve the other degrees of education, which allow them to live up to their training, because due to the migratory situation they have experienced, many of them have lost several years of schooling or even have never attended school. We also turn to mothers, still very young (between 17 and 35 years old) who have had little access to education and we try to accompany them and give them training on basic aspects such as health, children's education to ensure a better life and better paid work.
Proyecto Maín: educación en valores, Callao (Perù)
spanish
Edited by Mildred Avila Miñan
The "Project Maín" is an initiative of the Union Exallieve delle Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice di Callao, a city that has been joined by the FMA community of Peru. The central objective was to educate and children of the "Daniel A. Carrión Human Settlement" to value and take responsibility for the mother's parrot, reinforcing both and protecting people for the prevention of social risk behavior and change in the future.
Impulso al protagonismo Yanomami en el encuentro intercultural, Alto Orinoco (Venezuela)
spanish
Edited by María Isabel Eguillor e María Henar Alcalde
Intercultural Bilingual Education is “a socio-educational principle that implies the recognition of both cultures and of the other cultures in the country with which they come into contact, enriching each other, without damaging or destroying the fundamental nucleus of each of them”. Direct recipients of this Bilingual Intercultural Education Project are children and young people, together with adults from the educational Community (teaching, administrative, as well as parents and representatives) of the Yanomami ethnic group who live in the mysterious jungles of the Amazon of Venezuela and are called so why they define themselves as "people who make their home".
Asia
Educazione dei bambini alla spiritualità ecologica, Seoul (Corea del Sud)
english
Edited by Lee Mi Young Gemma
The ecological spirituality education program for children aged 3 to 5 is held throughout the school year at the Salesio Seongmi Kindergarten. In 1995 an “Environmental camping program” was launched to accompany children and make them grow as people capable of taking responsibility for their present and the future. Subsequently, two other programs were studied and implemented: “Peace Unification Camp” (1997) with the desire for peace to live on the Korean peninsula; “Peace Camp” with a look at the world, on the occasion of the outbreak of the war in Iraq (2003). At the beginning of 2000, we asked ourselves: "Why did God give us small cabbage seeds instead of big cabbages?". This is how the "Ecological Spirituality Program" developed, which creates and develops friendship with nature, with people and with God in the daily places of life. In 2010, due to the strong climate change, we began to reflect on Don Bosco's preventive system and ecological spirituality.
Accompanying the Young at Risk on life’s Journey towards Family Integration, Mumbai (India)
inglese
Edited by Moksha Mary Anthonappa
FMA YaR India is made up of all homes that offer a family environment to disadvantaged children under the age of 18 who need a safe family environment. A nursing home for girls over 18, equipped with facilities to continue their education, become stable in life and reintegrate into society. The dream accompanies young people at risk towards holistic development, following them and empowering them to build their own families and support them.
Home of Love, Manipur (India)
english
Edited by Teresa Karottukunnel
In 1993, after a few visits to the prison, it was realized the need to treat women addicted to drugs. In fact, it happened that parents paid the police to arrest their own daughters and keep them in prison, because they could not control them. Unfortunately, there are no proper girls' care centers in Manipur. This is how it was decided to open a rehabilitation center for young women.
Catechesis and Evangelization through Village touring, Shillong (North East India)
english
Edited by Maristella Ryngkhlem
The majority of the FMA communities of North-East India are located at great distances from each other. The sisters are thus engaged full time in direct evangelization, while others do catechesis at home and in the parish, prepare children and adults for the sacraments of Christian initiation, visit villages and families for holidays and on special occasions. The result is that every year there are a good number of conversions and adhesions to the Catholic Church. This happens with careful observance of the preventive system as a spirituality in the mission of catechesis and evangelization.
Laura Vicuña Foundation: Child protection clinic on wheels, Quezon City (Filippine)
english
Edited by Maria Victoria Santa Ana
The Laura Vicuña Foundation's (LVF) Child Protection Clinic (CPC) on Wheels is a preventive strategy to combat the abuse, exploitation and trafficking of children. Implemented by the main LVF staff with grassroots volunteers from the area, the activities are aimed at strengthening the capacity of young people to build their coping mechanism and their resilience through life skills sessions. The CPC on Wheels aims to create a culture of protection for children, the weakest and most defenseless in society. Like any "clinic" it offers learning sessions on children's rights, protective behaviors, protection and prevention of abuse, catechesis and Salesian Youth Groups (SYG). It provides a helpdesk that is always ready to listen, offers help and referral to those seeking abuse assistance and regular supplementary nutrition and occasional medical missions. The project is a prevention mission against child abuse and an evangelization in which the traumas of the soul suffered with abuse and exploitation in one's family environment are healed.
Europe
Il VIDES per l’educazione delle donne. Percorsi, sfide e prospettive, Ambito per la Pastorale giovanile
italian
Edited by Annecie Audate
VIDES (International Volunteering For Women Education and Development) was born from the proposal of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA). VIDES plays an important role before the United Nations, bringing positive complaints to the Human Rights Council, that is, presenting the good practices of the Salesian sisters and volunteers who, on the spot, deal with the most vulnerable sectors of society. By working closely with the different realities of civil society on the rights of children, young people and women, VIDES can have a positive influence on the educational policies of these groups at risk. The good practice focuses above all on the work of VIDES for the empowerment of women in the charismatic perspective of the preventive system.
Global Youth Agenda Initiative -Youth for Human Rights, Ambito per la Pastorale giovanile
italian
Edited by Sarah Garcia
The Human Rights Office (HRO), established in 2007 in Veyrier - Geneva (Switzerland), is the representation of the International Institute of Mary Help of Christians (IIMA) at the United Nations (UN). IIMA envisions a "world in which everyone can realize their full potential to be free and responsible citizens". At the Human Rights Council, IIMA is recognized as a defender of the right to education for all and a promoter of the empowerment of children, young people and women. To realize its vision-mission, the Human Rights Office is inspired by the principles of the Preventive System and is committed to translating it into the language of human rights through its pillars of action: advocacy, capacity building, communication and networking. To effectively implement the Salesian method, IIMA bases its action on Human Rights Education.
Le Istituzioni Superiori delle FMA (ISS-FMA): una rete globale al servizio dei giovani, Ambito per la Pastorale giovanile
italian
Edited by Ivone Goulart Lopes
The Daughters of Mary Help of Christians have founded cultural centers, schools of all types and levels, up to the University, at the same time raising the cultural level of its members, so as to significantly affect the education of the younger generations through a quality culture capable of to educate attentive, aware and proactive citizens in the society of our time, guided by the spirit of "da mihi animas coetera tolle" and of: "I entrust them to you", to "take care" of poor girls, educating and evangelizing. ISS are academic communities that accompany university students and academic teaching and non-teaching staff. They are places for the elaboration of knowledge and critical formation, where teaching, research and service functions are carried out to society in the Church. They conceive pastoral action as the way to carry out the evangelizing mission. Faithful to the Preventive System, they take on a vision that engages all members in the development of a humanizing culture and educates people to become agents of social transformation.
L’esperienza del Servizio Civile in Italia
italian
Edited by Francesca Barbanera
For about 20 years, all the Italian provinces of the FMA have been involved in a very significant experience from many points of view - both for the works and for the young - so much so that it has proved to be an exceptional pastoral opportunity: the Servizio Civile Universale. This is a program of the Italian State, coordinated by the Ministry of Youth Policies, which supports the possibility of introducing young people aged 18 to 28 in some accredited structures, to carry out activities of public interest, aimed at the common good. This opportunity has allowed many young people to come into contact with the Salesian charism, to know the reality of the FMA and the Salesian Youth Movement and to collaborate closely and closely in the educational mission.
En red caminando con los más vulnerables: las Plataformas Sociales FMA España
spanish
Edited by Ana María Sarabia
The Social Platforms as an educational environment consist of five civil social entities: the Valponasca Association, the Canaria Maín Foundation, the María Auxiliadora Foundation, the Mornese Foundation and the Valsé Foundation. Since 2000, the FMA Social Platforms have been part of the State Coordination of Social Platforms of Spain (CEPSS), a network created by the Salesians of Don Bosco and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians to share the response that the Salesian charism brings to the reality of the most vulnerable in our society.
“Tejiendo red, construyendo futuro”: las escuelas de las Salesianas en España
spanish
Edited by Emilia Rosado Morales
The network of Salesian schools in Spain is a "family" made up of 1 Center for University Studies, CES Don Bosco-Madrid with about 950 students and 60 educators; 42 schools, distributed in 10 autonomous communities and of different sizes, for a total of about 22 thousand students and 1,400 educators. "Weaving a network, building the future": a network of schools powered by the "network of encounters between people"; thanks to the network of reflection teams that promote it and thanks to the strength of the Salesian charism, which always opens paths of hope.
Oceania
The FMA Educational Response in the Solomon Islands (Gizo)
english
Edited by Annamaria Gervasoni
Gizo is the capital of the western province of the Solomon Islands and is the second largest city in the country. It is located approximately 380 kilometers west-northwest of the capital, Honiara. The FMA arrived there in 2018 for the management of the St. Peters Urban Training Center, a diocesan technical school. In 2020 the diocesan primary school was built, in the settlement of Nusabaruku, on the outskirts of Gizo. It welcomes 200 children from the Kiribati community, who did not have access to formal education because the government school was too far away. To get to the school, they have to take a short boat trip every day and walk up the hill. The school is a local response to the cry of the earth (the Nusabaruku settlement is experiencing sea level rise: every high tide floods homes, paths and fields) and of the poor (so far the Kiribati people are considered "different" from Solomon Islanders, because it maintains its own language, traditions, lifestyle and hardly mixes with the local population).